anilyzer
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Hello. New to the forum. This seems pretty great.
Anyways I've been doing some work with a model for a fitness book--I paid the model, and had him sign two very thorough-going model releases. One of the model releases also mentioned the name of the book/marketing project specifically.
My question is, does this give me 100% go-ahead to use this guys images in a book? The book is starting to shape up like it will feature this model very prominently in the book, possibly 100s of images, all of him. He knew going in that I was working on a book and wanted to use some images of him, and he sat for two photo-sessions that were very in-depth. However, I perhaps haven't explicitly discussed with him exactly the nature of the project; and I wasn't aware of really how central the images of him would end up being to the project.
I feel like I am in the clear here, that the photo releases and contracts state pretty unequivocally that I can use these images in a very unlimited manner, forever, etc etc. However am I straying into different territory at all somehow by using someone's likeness and featuring it so prominently in a book, making that person very central to the book project? Also I'm not sure if I am required to credit him, or if that is optional, or what effect that has on things.
As the project starts to launch, I'm sure I'll would probably send him a copy or whatever... however not sure if he might at that point try to say he is entitled to some royalty or whatever. However I feel that since I have the full rights to the photos, that is pretty unequivocal and I am free to use them for the project as intended.
Any thoughts or insight into this would be most appreciated. Thanks
Anyways I've been doing some work with a model for a fitness book--I paid the model, and had him sign two very thorough-going model releases. One of the model releases also mentioned the name of the book/marketing project specifically.
My question is, does this give me 100% go-ahead to use this guys images in a book? The book is starting to shape up like it will feature this model very prominently in the book, possibly 100s of images, all of him. He knew going in that I was working on a book and wanted to use some images of him, and he sat for two photo-sessions that were very in-depth. However, I perhaps haven't explicitly discussed with him exactly the nature of the project; and I wasn't aware of really how central the images of him would end up being to the project.
I feel like I am in the clear here, that the photo releases and contracts state pretty unequivocally that I can use these images in a very unlimited manner, forever, etc etc. However am I straying into different territory at all somehow by using someone's likeness and featuring it so prominently in a book, making that person very central to the book project? Also I'm not sure if I am required to credit him, or if that is optional, or what effect that has on things.
As the project starts to launch, I'm sure I'll would probably send him a copy or whatever... however not sure if he might at that point try to say he is entitled to some royalty or whatever. However I feel that since I have the full rights to the photos, that is pretty unequivocal and I am free to use them for the project as intended.
Any thoughts or insight into this would be most appreciated. Thanks